As the commander of a very competitive and serious clan (ART of WAR ELITE) this ability for soldiers to invite anyone to join the clan makes my life a nightmare and the success of our clan winning diamond division clan wars nearly impossible.

In Diamond division there is roster brackets. We are in the 46-54 clan member bracket. My Lt. Commanders and I have worked very hard at finding and scheduling our members to ensure they can all participate in the clan war for at least 85% of the 12 hrs needed to compete.

If one of our soldiers invites just one new person before the roster locks that would put us at 55 members and thus at the bottom of the next bracket up of 55-68 members. That means we would be 12 members short of the other clans we would be competing against. THIS IS BEYOND FRUSTRATING!!!

If we lose a diamond division clan war because some random clan member invites a buddy and kicks us up into the next bracket that will cause a problem of epic proportions. We have kicked 35 members to get to 54 85% and higher participation clan members. That is not easy.

Please revert the system back to only Lt. Commanders being able to invite new members immediately!

I didn't realize that that had changed. Our clan was trying to get in the 34-39 bracket and kicked inactive members to get there. A couple hours later we grew to 45, puzzled as to which Lt. Commander was inviting people. Now I know, it was a soldier. We reject a good number of people for various reasons, but you know everyone wants their buddies in the clan even if they don't belong. They NEED to change that. Soldiers are Soldiers, they shouldn't be given power to invite new members. Just like it's said above, these guys can seriously wreck a clan's chances at winning.

I agree with this 100%. Soldiers shouldn't be allowed to invite people to the clan. If you want your friend to join you could easily either (1) just tell your friend to apply via the App or (2) ask a lieutenant commander to send them an invite. The new way does more harm than good.

From back to mw3 people had asked for other to be allowed to recruit /invite clan members and they actually listened on that front just not to the degree some of us wanted. I would like for them to fine tune that a bit to where we (meaning clan leaders) can activate or deactivate certain privileges regardless of the rank we assign. example one lt commander may have the option to recruit while i chose not to give that option to another lt commander. So i acknowledge they did attempt to listen and give us what they thought we wanted , just not how we wanted it.

That's part of the problem with all the updates/changes they have made to the game since it's release. For everything they fixed/added, there have been unintended consequences. People wanted faster matchmaking, they got it, along with terrible lag (fixed now, though). People wanted to be able to invite, now some clans are being spammed with randoms. I could go on, but I'll stop and say this: Careful what you wish for.

Make too many demands or requests of the devs.. and this is what you get.. and deserve for wanting everything your way. Not saying it was you but everyone else that complained about how it worked before hand.

As a clan leader, I agree. Although my clan isn't as competitive as some of yours, I have built my clan with a very clear definition of the kind of person we want in our clan. The Ghost Elite Clan is a small, subset of my overall gaming clan, but with anyone being able to invite people to join eliminates the control we have in keeping our clan the way we wish to keep it.

It was great to bring out the position of Lt. Commander that allows others; of our choosing, to help administrate the clan. The system was pretty much perfect at that point.

Please revert the solder's ability to invite others into the clan; or at least, put the invited prospective clan person into a status that requires the clan commander to make the final approval prior to entry into the clan.

I hate to say this but 99.999% of the time you will not get an official response concerning an issue like this. At best, you might get " thank you for your feedback, we will pass it along " and nothing gets done. The best you can do now is go on twitter and tweet to Beachhead Studios which will provide you with the trademark answer I posted in quotes.

For Beachhead Studio to utilize a full blown web site like this for feedback and communication to it's customers would be a sin. Instead they resort to social media with limited characters.

I thought it was established that the brackets are not chosen by size but by the wins and activity your clan shows during qualifying week? Meaning that if your clan has 4 members and got 100 wins during qualifying week you potentially could be playing in the same bracket as a clan with 50 members but only had 100 wins during qualifying week. I do apoligize for going off subject but I just wanted to correct this as well.

Don't think that is correct. They would never group clans with that great a difference in size regardless of activity or wins just because off the potential wins the larger clan would have. Unfair to smaller clans. Believe they first sort clans by size & then rank them into divisions by stats to include activity, win %, & results from precocious clan war.

I think a better solution is to ask if they could make the ability for soldiers to invite members toggled by the commander. That way everyone wins.

I personally like the idea of soldiers inviting because my friends would have to wait for me or two other guys to invite their close friends or family into the clan. It's a nice option for small close knit clans to have.

like so and so has recommended this player to be recruited that would be dope."Recommend player to CO or LTC" button to send a message to the co and ltc's, that's a solution I like. Instead or making soldiers capable of recruiting and messing up the roster. I had that problem last clan wars I was wondering how I had randoms sneaking in. dude didn't even play and the bracket we were in was ruthless. we ended up taking the L coming in fourth, the lowest place we took yet, I made cuts immediately after.

I agree whole heartedly. This really messes up clans. Most clans have rules and pre screening of members. By allowing soldiers to invite you are throwing our hard work in our faces. I am only a Lieutenant Commander and was made one because I actually know what the Cmdr is looking for in soldiers. We are not selective except for requirements of age and the use of a mic. But it can still screw up our entire system if any soldier has a friend and wants them to join but their friend does not meet our minimal requirements let alone other clans much larger requirements. Does Activision not think about something when they make these changes?

SO WHEN THE F$%& IS BEACH HEAD GONNA GET ON TOP OF THIS ISSUE I HATE KICKING PPL OUT AND I HAVE TO DO THIS **** CONSTANTLY I GOT WORK AND IM ON THE PHONE BOOTING RANDOM PEOPLE COME ON HANDLE THE COMPLAINTS BEACH HEAD STUDIO, IM IN DIAMOND DIVISION DIRECTING MY CLAN AND I KEEP GETTING RANDOM XBOX AND PS4 PPL IN LIKE WTF!!!! ILL TAKE MY CLAN BACK TO BLACK OPS 2 OR MW3 IF THIS ISSUE DOESNT GET ADDRESSED ASA...******* P

Chill and take off the caps lock it makes you look like a child and not someone worth listening too. Making threats to them is not going to make them change it to suit you. In fact the more you threaten the less they will do about it. You don't command them or control them. You can only ask of them and then they will decide what they feel is right or not even if you disagree with it.